Originally Posted by
Reid Malenfant
Yes, I've seen this too. Strange. My A3 1.8T Sport, 10 years old and 107k miles has only had one failure in all that period and that was the sender unit in the engine management system. Maybe they were better built back then? Mind you if I recall, the unreliability statistic was heavily skewed by their 8-series. Hmm.
PS: The point remains though that dim-wit that I am I still can't figure out why they'd restrict sales, in order to create a 12-month waiting list when there are buyers like me with cash to spend on the top of the line RS3
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